John Knox foi um religioso reformador escocês que liderou uma reforma religiosa na Escócia segundo a linha calvinista. Ele foi educado na Universidade de St Andrews ou possivelmente a Universidade de Glasgow e foi ordenado para o sacerdócio católico em 1536. Influenciado pelos reformadores da igreja primitiva, como George Wishart, ele se juntou ao movimento para reformar a igreja escocesa. Ele foi pego nos eventos eclesiásticos e políticos que envolveram o assassinato do cardeal Beaton em 1546 e a intervenção da regente da Escócia Maria de Guise. Ele foi preso por forças francesas no ano seguinte e exilado para a Inglaterra em sua libertação em 1549.
Seu lugar e data de nascimento continuam a ser debatidos, sendo Gifford Gate, nas proximidades da cidade de Haddington o mais provável local.
“Não, regressem para as vossas crianças. Um é suficiente para o sacrifício”
"Nay, return to your bairns [pupils]. One is sufficient for a sacrifice."
The works of John Knox - v.6, Página xxiii http://books.google.com.br/books?id=YcDOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR23, de John Knox, David Laing, Wodrow Society - Publicado por T.G. Stevenson, 1864
“I have a testimony this day in my conscience, before God, however the world rage.”
"Last Will and Testament" (May 1572); published in John Knox and John Knox's House (1905) by Charles John Guthrie
Contexto: None have I corrupted. None have I defrauded. Merchandise have I not made — to God's glory I write — of the glorious Evangel of Jesus Christ; but, according to the measure of the grace granted unto me, I have divided the Sermon of Truth in just parts, beating down the rebellion of the proud against God, and raising up the consciences troubled with the knowledge of their sins, by declaring Jesus Christ, the strength of His Death, and the mighty operation of His Resurrection, in the hearts of the Faithful. Of this, I say, I have a testimony this day in my conscience, before God, however the world rage.
“I am a watchman…For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”
As quoted in World Studies for Christian Schools (2000) by Terri Koontz, Mark Sidwell & S. M. Bunker,
Contexto: As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
"Last Will and Testament" (May 1572); published in John Knox and John Knox's House (1905) by Charles John Guthrie
Contexto: None have I corrupted. None have I defrauded. Merchandise have I not made — to God's glory I write — of the glorious Evangel of Jesus Christ; but, according to the measure of the grace granted unto me, I have divided the Sermon of Truth in just parts, beating down the rebellion of the proud against God, and raising up the consciences troubled with the knowledge of their sins, by declaring Jesus Christ, the strength of His Death, and the mighty operation of His Resurrection, in the hearts of the Faithful. Of this, I say, I have a testimony this day in my conscience, before God, however the world rage.
John Knox interview with Queen Mary I, History of the Reformation in Scotland http://www.reformation.org/john-knox-interview.html. (Edited by William Croft Dickinson, D.Lit.). Philosophical Library, New York, 1950
John Knox pastoral, as quoted in The Breakers of the Yoke: Sketches and Studies of the Men ... by J. S. MacIntosh, p. 303
John Knox, A Vindication of the Doctrine that the Sacrifice of the Mass is Idolatry http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/vindicat.htm, 1550; as quoted in Selected Writings of John Knox: Public Epistles, Treatises, and Expositions to the Year 1559
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous regiment of women 1558 reprint New York: Da Capo Press, 1972, p.9 as quoted in "Gender Difference and Tudor Monarchy: The Significance of Queen Mary I" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/474844/pdf, Judith Richards
As quoted in The Thundering Scot (1957) by Geddes MacGregor
The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate
After that was no Scotchman urged with that idolatry.
John Knox letter December 1559 as quoted in John Knox https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=S94QAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-S94QAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1 by William Mackergo Taylor, 1885, p.25-26
John Knox Off Edinburgh the 20. Day of Juli. 1559 http://biblehub.com/library/knox/the_first_blast_of_the_trumpet/20_july_1559_john_knoxs.htm
